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Staff briefs council on proposed PUD at 606½ East Riverside Drive; environmental measures and height waiver flagged
Summary
Planning staff gave a pre‑application development assessment for a proposed planned unit development at 606½ E. Riverside Drive, describing a mixed‑use project that requests multiple code modifications and proposes environmental 'superiority' measures; council members asked about review timing and flood concerns
Joy Harden of the Planning Department briefed the Austin City Council on a pre‑application development assessment for a proposed planned unit development (PUD) at 606½ East Riverside Drive during the work session at Austin City Hall.
Harden said the site is about 1.75 acres, currently developed with a single‑story commercial building and surface parking, and sits within the South Central Waterfront Vision Framework Plan and the Greater South River City neighborhood plan. The applicant proposes PUD and P zoning for a mixed‑use development with roughly 200 residential units and about 208,000 square feet of retail/restaurant space, and requests 22 code modifications including an increased maximum building height beyond the waterfront overlay standard.
Why it matters: the site lies inside an urban watershed and adjacent to the Austin light rail alignment, and the applicant’s requested entitlements would require council consideration…
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